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Laurel Fan's "Famous books that nobody reads"

These books are such a part of our cultural context (kafka-esque, orwellian, quixotic..) that everyone seems to know what they’re about without having read them. Or at least can quote a few lines ("out, dammed spot").
1. War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
2. The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
  
3. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
4. In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
by Marcel Proust
  
5. The Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell
  
6. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
7. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
8. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
9.
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 The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
  
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Created by Laurel Fan on Mar 19, 2007.